HAIRSTERIA!Sabrina HabelSynthetic hair and screens with four channel video2011

Evidence of the passage of time is removed with a snip, a cut, a swift nick. Results can be traumatizing, emotional, hysterical. But why? Hair as a gender signifier, hair as a sign of age, hair as protection, hair as identity. The loss of gender, protection, identity and the seemingly eternal waiting period to regain what has been lost.